Dell breaks out tattoo surfer laptops by Mike Ming

Dell is now selling their Inspiron 1525 series of laptops with designs by artist Mike Ming. They're designed to be "attuned to youth culture," which is one of those artfully clueless turns of phrase that could only be put earnestly on paper by a press release writer secretly mystified by these crazy kids today with their Dinosaur Comics and their LOLCats and their Substance D.

One Ming Inspiron will set you back about $699, although from my mother's anecdotal experience ordering what Beschizza might have called a "whore red" laptop from Dell, I wonder if the Ming design is just a sticker, in which case you're probably better off just going to Gelaskins. Hell, Dell should just team up with those guys: they're awesome.

Mike Ming Inspirons [Dell via Crunchgear]

[#1 posted by Anonymous , May 6, 2008 11:28 AM]

That's a bad link to gelaskinz -- it just goes to some crappy domain-squatter page.

[#2 posted by Tomas , May 6, 2008 11:28 AM]

Uh, www.gelaskinz.com seems to have vanished... :o(

[#3 posted by dculberson , May 6, 2008 11:32 AM]

Is this it?

http://www.gelaskins.com/

[#4 posted by John Brownlee , May 6, 2008 11:34 AM]

Ha. Yes. I don't know why I thought it had a "z" in it. Maybe because they're so EXTREME!

[#5 posted by Qozmiq , May 6, 2008 12:38 PM]

Ahhhhh. Substance D. Just what the government ordered. Little blue flowers never hurt anyone...

[#6 posted by aarrgghh , May 6, 2008 1:29 PM]

"attuned to youth culture"

hahahah

hard to believe these guys are too nerdy to remember words like "cool"

classic dilbert

[#7 posted by aarrgghh , May 6, 2008 1:33 PM]

of course, if you have to actually claim that your product is "cool", it probably isn't.

[#8 posted by Fnarf , May 6, 2008 6:46 PM]

Mr. Brownlee, if you were as attuned to youth culture as you claim to be, you would know that the word is XTREME.

The gelaskins tip is a welcome one. I just ordered one for new ipod. I have been assured that it is RADICAL, as the kids say. Possibly even BITCHIN'.

[#9 posted by dculberson , May 6, 2008 7:29 PM]

@John and Fnarf: Extreme Cheddar!!!

[#10 posted by Fnarf , May 6, 2008 9:07 PM]

Cheddar can't be XTREME. It doesn't have caffeine in it. Pasteurized Process Cheese Food Product with caffeine and Guarana -- now that's XTREME.

[#11 posted by dculberson , May 7, 2008 7:46 AM]

Fnarf, you're right! You need to be on a marketing team. But also I guess that's why they spell it eXtreme rather than the preferred XTREME!!

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